unhappy - Story 157358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James stared at the mass of forgotten objects, a physical manifestation of everything he was trying to forget. The sun was hot on his neck, but he couldn't feel it. He felt numb.

He found a shoebox crammed with old letters. He pulled one out and started to read, but the words blurred before his eyes. All the letters felt the same. He didn't want to know any of it.

He threw the letters down and felt a strange calm. He did the same to the shoebox.

Emotion: unhappy

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.62 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.78

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion unhappy. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 unhappy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the unhappy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the unhappy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.339
`😞`	0.317
`💔`	0.252
`😔`	0.249
`😢`	0.241

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.436
`la`	-0.266
`l`	-0.224
`/`	-0.216
`-`	-0.199